-Oh and I'd love to see a photo of the house!!It can be one of our holiday missions!

-I think the thing I enjoy most is the challenge of solving problems, real life or otherwise... You might have even solved my net problems if I hadn't had to rush to the airport to get my mother away (and we only got there in time for the final boarding call LOL!). Still, I think you renewed my flagging confidence just by being there for me on the phone!

-"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges"Excellent poster! That was a good time for you to determine a postive course of action. I think I help other people but forget to do the same for me. And I sometimes picture you as a rock calming the seas around you, so your determination must have worked!! I'll have to try to do as well.

I think you are amazing in how much you give to those around you, but you need to be kind to yourself too, and value what you do!

And I sometimes picture you as a rock calming the seas around you,

Really...that's an amazing picture, painting inspiring sort of stuff, but if I appear that way, it's only because I am clinging to the only real rock that there is..."I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand." (Psalm 40)

Thank you. I have trouble valuing what I do, because so much of it seems to end in disaster, and I swear not through my own making, no matter what other people insist. I mean, two crazy Principals in a row for starters...

-he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to standI can see you doing a painting of the rock, maybe with some hints of scripture - not exactly Colin McCahon but something in your vibrant style *g* like words swirling in the water!